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Police Confirm Former COAL CHAMBER Bassist RAYNA FOSS Has Been Found Safe After Being Reported Missing
According to New Orleans TV station FOX 8 WVUE-TV, New Orleans police confirmed that former COAL CHAMBER bassist Rayna Foss has been found safe after being supposedly missing for months. Four months ago, the 51-year-old Foss was reported missing by her group home manager after last being seen on September 7, 2021. WVUE issued a notice via its official Facebook page describing her at the time as being 5-foot-3 and 200 pounds. The police also urged anyone with additional information on Foss‘s whereabouts to contact them. Earlier this week, the news of Rayna‘s apparent disappearance was reported by the rock music media, including BLABBERMOUTH.NET. A day later, Rayna‘s 22-year-old daughter Kayla — whose father is Foss‘s former husband, SEVENDUST drummer Morgan Rose — re...
TWISTED SISTER To Release ‘Greatest Hits – Tear It Loose (Studio & Live)’
For the first time ever on vinyl, TWISTED SISTER and Friday Music have teamed up to create the ultimate heavy metal hits collection with TWISTED SISTER‘s “Greatest Hits – Tear It Loose (Studio & Live)”. Compiled from the original Atlantic Records tape vaults by TWISTED SISTER‘s co-founder Jay Jay French and Joe Reagoso (TWISTED SISTER, ALICE COOPER, THIN LIZZY), this long-overdue release contains a stellar overview of the band’s remarkable gold-and-platinum career. Due on January 14, the five-star deluxe two-LP set includes classic Atlantic Records studio tracks like “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, “Under The Blade”, “I Wanna Rock”, “Leader Of The Pack”, “Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant”, ̶...
CARCASS’s JEFF WALKER Wasn’t Surprised By Postponement Of Band’s Tour With ARCH ENEMY And BEHEMOTH
CARCASS frontman Jeff Walker has told Finland’s Chaoszine that the postponement of the band’s fall 2021 “The European Siege” tour with ARCH ENEMY and BEHEMOTH didn’t come as much of a shock to him. “It was not a setback at all,” he said. “When we agreed to do the tour [in 2020], I saw this happening; it was no big surprise to me. It’s a relief in a way because they left it so late to announce that the tour wasn’t gonna happen. There were so many hurdles and obstacles I could see that was gonna be thrown up. Between COVID and Brexit, it was gonna be very difficult to tour this [last] year in September. I think it was a good thing to postpone it, to give more time. Not [just] because of the whole shit, but the impact that Brexit is ...
TRIXTER Drummer Claims Some Members Have No Desire To Put Band Back Together
TRIXTER drummer Mark “Gus” Scott says that no progress has been made in his desire to get the band back together. Both TRIXTER guitarist Steve Brown and bassist P.J. Farley have been critical of Scott in recent interviews, with Steve saying that the drummer is on “the shit list beyond belief” with the rest of the group, while P.J. compared being in a band with Mark to owning a disobedient dog. “Sometimes you let the dog off a leash and he just goes running to the middle of the street — no good,” he said. Asked in a new interview with “The Bay Ragni Show” to give an update on his apparent feud with his bandmates, Scott said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I hate to say it, there really has been no change since the last time we spo...
2022 Grammy Awards Ceremony Postponed Indefinitely Due to Omicron Concerns
With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 reportedly reaching 1 million daily cases, The Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th annual Grammy Awards. The ceremony was scheduled to take place on Monday, January 31st, 2022. In a joint statement released by The Recording Academy and CBS, they cited “uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant” as the driving factor behind the move. “After careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many partners, the Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards Show,” the statement reads. “The health and safety of those in our music community, the live audience, and the hundreds of people who work tirelessly to produce ou...
Steve Aoki Reveals Unreleased Collab With “The Legend” Mac Miller
It’s been more than three years since the tragic death of Mac Miller in 2018, but the support of his friends and collaborators remains as strong as ever. So goes Miller’s relationship with Steve Aoki, who recently took to Twitter to reveal an unreleased collaboration with the late rapper. The track, Aoki remembered, features Miller’s vocals and can only be described as “magic.” Aoki is not the first musician to acknowledge that, despite the posthumous release of Miller’s final album Circles—which featured a collaboration with Disclosure’s Guy Lawrence—it’s simply impossible to grasp the full scale of projects Miller worked on throughout his illustrious career. Just last year, for example, an unearthed EP called your shoe...
Subtronics Taps Zeds Dead and Flowdan for Supercharged Collaboration, “Gassed Up”
Zeds Dead and Subtronics recruited a very special guest for their third collaboration. For “Gassed Up,” the second single off of Subtronics’ upcoming album Fractals, the trio of bass music producers joined forces with grime heavyweight Flowdan. Combining his lyrical abilities with the trio’s gargantuan bass, each vocal interlude sets up a supercharged bass drop laced with motorized, choppy wobbles. Check out the new single below. In a press release, Zeds Dead spoke about working with Subtronics for the third time since their 2019 single “Bumpy Teeth” and 2020 remix of Atmosphere’s “GodLovesUgly.” They also revealed how “Gassed Up” has been in the works since the summer and that Flowdan was the missing piece needed to complet...
The Evolution of The Weeknd
While it’s only been about two years since the release of The Weeknd’s last album After Hours, it seems that time has passed quickly for the artist. Teasing the artwork of his latest album, Dawn FM, the artist has transformed himself into a much older man, signaling a new evolution. Newly released, the LP bills itself as “a new sonic universe from the mind of The Weeknd” and to match, the artist dons wrinkles, grey hair and a pointedly solemn expression on the album’s cover. A mastermind of reinvention, The Weeknd cultivates a new persona for each of his albums – from the gritty mixtapes that made their way through Toronto’s underground to the arrival of After Hours as the gloomy pop soundtrack that defined 2020. As he ushers in his next era, HYPEBEAST charted the evolution of The Weeknd’s...
Grow Your Own Willie Nelson with the New Chia Pet
Willie Nelson is known for his love of greenery. Now, with the new Chia Pet, he becomes it. Available wherever that one aunt shops for holiday presents, Chia Pet’s latest novelty planter features the Red-Headed Stranger in full bloom. Although only the luscious locks comes with color, the eyes just feel red, with a bleary glint that suggests this Chia Pet is having a great time. The devices is recommended by none other than alt-country icon Margo Price. “Love mine so much!” she wrote on Instagram. “The only thing that would make it better is if it came with cannabis seeds.” Alas, it’s supplied with regular old chia seeds. For a less conventional experience, you may have to check out Willie’s Reserve, where Nelson himself is the chief tester. But if you just want to knock off...
Testament’s Alex Skolnick Forms New Rap Duo Hu$h Money, Condemns Right-Wing Echo Chambers in “B.I.G. L.I.E.”: Stream
Testament guitarist and unlikely political hip-hop prodigy Alex Skolnick has debuted his new rap group, Hu$h Money, and shared the video for the track “B.I.G. L.I.E.” Last year, Skolnick made headlines when he released a pair of politically-charged rap songs, one blasting Donald Trump and another encouraging us to “Wear a F**king Mask.” Now Skolnick has returned as his alter ego Skoly-D and teamed up with co-conspirator Kimmy G, aka Kimmy Gordon, for a full-blown rap project. “B.I.G. L.I.E.,” which also features guest rapper J-Hype, picks up where Skoly-D left off with his previous songs, this time taking on “right-wing echo chambers” and the political lunacy that provoked the Capital insurrection a year ago today (January 6th). The song comes complete with an equally tongue-in-cheek...
R.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich, Acclaimed Film Director of The Last Picture Show Dead at 82
Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of films like The Last Picture Show; What’s Up, Doc?; and Noises Off, has died at the age of 82. The sad news was confirmed by the Hollywood giant’s daughter, who told The Hollywood Reporter that her father passed away from natural causes in the early morning of January 6th. Bogdanovich was born on July 30th, 1939. After graduating from New York City’s Collegiate School in 1957, he began studying acting at the famed Stella Adler Conservatory and got his career start as a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art, exposing patrons to his love of the works of Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Ford, as well as writing as a film critic for Esquire. Advertisement Related Video He married his first wife Polly Platt in 1962 and soon moved to Los An...
Jesse Michaels Addresses Possibility of Operation Ivy Reunion: “I Wouldn’t Object to It”
Operation Ivy is one of the few bands who has thus far resisted reuniting. The Bay Area quartet, made up of singer Jesse Michaels, guitarist Tim Armstrong, bassist Matt Freeman, and drummer Dave Mello, existed for only a brief two-year period between 1987 and 1989, and released only one studio album. But what an album it was: 1989’s Energy successfully bridged two-tone ska and punk rock into what would become the template for modern pop punk, making it one of the most influential albums of its time. After Op Ivy’s demise, Armstrong and Freeman formed Rancid, Michaels explored other interests such as painting, and Mello bought a ranch. In the three decades since then, the closest we’ve gotten to a reunion was a surprise appearance by Michaels at a Rancid show in 2006, during which he joined...
